Category: Anti-Muslim Bigotry

The murder of Asad Shah in March this year brought simmering tensions within Muslim communities sharply into focus. Muslim rights group MPAC UK were quick to cry ‘Islamophobia’ when news first broke that Mr Shah, a popular shopkeeper from the Shawlands area of Glasgow, had been stabbed to death. Their...

“People are following me, they are still following me. That’s the main reason that I came to the police station. In the future, at any time, if anything happens to me, it’s them.” These are the words of 19-year old Banaz Mahmod as she describes on police videotape the attempts by...

In March this year the Islamic Society at the London School of Economics held a gala dinner that segregated men and women, erecting a 7ft screen to split the hall in two – in order to prevent any other type of erections, they’d argue. Unsurprisingly, those that don’t hold the view...